Description
- Notes:
- by Bob Cole and Billy Johnson.
- For voice and piano
- Caption title
- Sung by Cole & Johnson in their comic skit "Coontown society"
- Advertisement for "The wedding of the Chinee and the coon" and other songs: p. [2]
- Advertisement for ""Thoughts of love" and other songs: p. [6]
- Cover illustration: photograph of Cole & Johnson; drawing of Afro-American man gambling
- Advertisement for "At a rag time reception" and other songs: cop. 2, p. [2]
- Advertisement for "The wedding of the Chinee and the Coon": cop. 2, p. [6]
- Library's copy 1 inscribed: Mathilda A. Powells 99'/
- Library's copy 2 inscribed: Sarah E. Muilwright; compliments of J.B. Arnold
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Cole, Bob,
"The luckiest coon in town"
(1909).
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s).
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:18819/
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Collection:
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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
...This collection is a grouping of over 1,400 items dating from the 1830s to the 1920s. The contents of the collection depict representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical …